Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


mostly engaged in house service.
Baltimore is to have a crematory.
Two years ago there was but one in
the country; 0 there are twelve.
Neither Hewitt, Roosevelt nor George
is more than five feet six in height. For
small men they have made a great deal
of noise in the world.
The Rochester Lumber Company, Of
Pittsburgh, intends to give $4,000 in
prizes to its employees who make the
highest wages during the year.
The beautiful Tyrian purple, which
Miss Cleveland detected in the literary
atmosphere Of Chicago, turns out to be
only a deep dark indigo blue.
The Empress Of Japan has an
nounced her intention Of wearing
European dress on ceremonial occa-
sions instead of the Japanese dress,
which has been compulsory.
DR.. T. l.. Cuyler says that amid all
the assaults of skepticism there are
three blessings in regard to which his
faith has never been shaken-they are,
Gods word, good women, and Saratoga
water.
The industrial growth Of the
Southern states may be judged from
the fact that within nine months no
less than ~SS3,OD0,0D0 has been invested
In manufacturing and mining enter
prises in that section of the union.
Prince Henry Of B~attenburg has,
after much practice, succeeded in learn
ing to wear a Scotch kilt. He has posi-
lively declined to eat haggis. There is
danger, in consequence, Of a civil war
between him and his mother-in-law.
TO help themselves over a busy spell,
the proprletors of a canning factory at
keokuk, Iowa, employed eight colored
girls. A large number of the white
girls requested the manager to dis
charge the colored help. AS he re-
fused, they left their work, and a strike
is in progress.
The American hero worshipper is
growing to be quite as much of a Goth
as his London prototype. He is at
present devoting his iconoclastic atten-
ton to Washington lrving's grave at
Sleepy Hollow cemetery. The relic
hunter should be cremated early and
often.
A band Of Greek brigands recently
captured m archbishop of the Greek
Church, for whose release they ask a
large ransom. They are very religious,
and oblige him to read mass every day,
and to pray for the success OF their I'M
d~ertakings, and then kneel and receive
his benediction.
Alexander Moody, a prominent we'll
connected citizen of Langston, Ala,
went home under the influence of
liquor. His wife took her children and
went to a neighbor's house. About ten
o'clock at night Moody's house vas
seen to b" on tie, aud before any per-
son could reach it, the roof had fallen
in. Moody Was bHrnod to death, and
his body was almost consumed.
The superintendent of the Brook
Ign bridge, al the recent third anniVer<
sary of the opening of the railroad
over 1t, said that the ears Oh it had
travelled l,766, 204 miles: that there are
now about 1909 round trips a day, and
about 5000 persons are daily carried
over it. The president expects to see
fifty trains an hour each way, carrying
from 10000 to 10000 passengers.
Frederick Joslin, Of st. Johnsbury,
VT, has been a pauper FOR years. He
lost his eyesight from rheumatism col
tracted during the war. Ten years ago
an attorney took hold of his case and
attempted to obtain for him q pension.
Success has crowned his efforts, and
the pauper receives $4,000 back pay
and So a month for life. This is said
to be the largest pension yet obtained
by a Vermonter.
A burly rutian in Washington,
Penn, of a quarrelsome disposition,
had become a sort Of terror in the COM
munity; but one day last week he
picked a quarrel with a quiet sort of a
man, who at once closed with him in a
rough-and-tumble fight. The quiet
man fought so ~furiously that the
friends Of the bully had to come to his
| rescue, and he went home much dam
aged in body as well as in reputation
as a gamey fighter.
The Armour brothers of Chicago
have founded in that city a mission
church and school which promises to
bestow great benefits upon the needy
public. The buildings are nearly ready
for occupancy, and include a nursery, a
kindergarten, a library, bathing rooms,
and a free dispensary. The establish
ment will be maintained by the rentals
Of fifteen apartment houses, now
being erected for the purpose, at a cost
of S1,OOO,OOO.
One afternoon recently three little
children went out to play near Andal-
usia, Ala, in the hole where a tree that
| had been blown down had stood. At